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  2. History of slavery in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    After the Louisiana Purchase, an influx of slaves and free blacks from the United States occurred. Secondly, Louisiana's slave trade was governed by the French Code Noir, and later by its Spanish equivalent the Código Negro. As written, the Code Noir gave specific rights to slaves, including the right to marry. Although it authorized and ...

  3. Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

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    The Louisiana Purchase was the latter, a treaty. Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution specifically grants the president the power to negotiate treaties, which is what Jefferson did. [41] Madison (the "Father of the Constitution") assured Jefferson that the Louisiana Purchase was well within even the strictest interpretation of the ...

  4. Category:History of slavery in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "History of slavery in Louisiana" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 ...

  5. Louisiana in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    In the antebellum period, Louisiana was a slave state, where enslaved African Americans had comprised the majority of the population during the eighteenth-century French and Spanish dominations. By the time the United States acquired the territory (1803) and Louisiana became a state (1812), the institution of slavery was entrenched.

  6. Neutral Ground (Louisiana) - Wikipedia

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    France took formal control of Louisiana from Spain on November 30, 1803, and turned over New Orleans to the United States on December 20, 1803. The U.S. took over the rest of the territory on March 10, 1804. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States and opened U.S. expansion west to the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf Coast.

  7. Category:Slavery in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Slavery in Louisiana" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.

  8. Territory of Orleans - Wikipedia

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    In 1804, all of the Louisiana Purchase south of the 33rd parallel became the Orleans Territory, and the remainder became the District of Louisiana. (The District of Louisiana was later renamed the Louisiana Territory; and still later, when the Orleans Territory became the State of Louisiana, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.)

  9. African Americans in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Runaway slave ad in Louisiana, 1851. The first enslaved people from Africa arrived in Louisiana in 1719 on the Aurore slave ship from Whydah, only a year after the founding of New Orleans. [7] Twenty-three slave ships brought black slaves to Louisiana in French Louisiana alone, almost all embarking prior to 1730. [8]